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Volmorning

Volmorning

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Granted, I am a van of the Vols. This book chronicles my life experience, form the extasy of the 86 win over MIami to the problems and indecision last year. This book moved me deeply, and made me believe even more that the SEC is bigger than any school, and that CPF might have been the last of an era. Thoughts? Are we just a business now?
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Fulmer got himself fired by thinking he could just keep doing the same things that had worked against the Goffs, Zooks, and Shulas of the world. What's amazing is that it took this long for him to get fired. Two losing seasons in the last four years and no championships in 10 years is unacceptable.
 
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Volmorning said:
Granted, I am a van of the Vols. This book chronicles my life experience, form the extasy of the 86 win over MIami to the problems and indecision last year. This book moved me deeply, and made me believe even more that the SEC is bigger than any school, and that CPF might have been the last of an era. Thoughts? Are we just a business now?
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A typing van? Damn!
 
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I was gonna be running out in the next few minutes to get a copy. I assume it is at all of the usual big box stores by now?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I was gonna be running out in the next few minutes to get a copy. I assume it is at all of the usual big box stores by now?
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I have yet to find it in Concord. I guess I will order it on line. Unless someone in the greater Charlotte area has seen it. If so, let me know.
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Download the ebook for < $10 from Barnes and Noble and be reading it 5 minutes from now. Only downside is you don't have anything for him to sign if you ever go to one of his book signings.
 
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I really have no desire to revisit last season's tragedy two weeks before UT enters a new era. Does the book overcome that?
 
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triadvolfan said:
I really have no desire to revisit last season's tragedy two weeks before UT enters a new era. Does the book overcome that?
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No, not really. However, it does make me reevaluate my blatant Fulmer-bashing last season. Don't get me wrong, it was time and I am excited by our future with CLK, but if you don't find new-found, or, in my case, long-lost respect for Fulmer after reading the book, you are cold brother, cold.
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triadvolfan said:
I really have no desire to revisit last season's tragedy two weeks before UT enters a new era. Does the book overcome that?
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I agree, it doesn't make the reader feel any better about 2008. It humanizes Fulmer and tells us a lot about him behind the scenes. At the same time it confirms why Fulmer (and his blind loyalty and stubbornness) was falling behind the competition and HAD to be fired.
 
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I got the book from Amazon. I'm about three chapters in. Thus far, it's pretty much the I AM CLAY TRAVIS THE TENNESSEE FAN STORY more than anything else. It doesn't seem like it's going to be the "2008 Tennessee football season" story as much as it's going to be the "what it was like to be Clay Travis watching the 2008 Tennessee football season" story. In the first two chapters, you get to read about what it was like to be Clay Travis flying out to LA for the first game, what it was like to be Clay Travis returning his rental car to the wrong airport, and what it was like to be Clay Travis arguing with his wife.

This is, so far, a masturbatory sort of book. Clay Travis has forgotten that the only people reading this book who care about Clay Travis are his mom and his dad and his wife.

Maybe things will improve. Thus far I regret spending any money on it.
 
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JBinTN said:
And you are a jerk my friend. Learn to read what was written and not make an arse out of yourself. He was giving the book a thumbs up.


Why do people act like this?

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Because it is just a message board....Not real life.

And because some people are so insecure with themselves that they have to demean others to make them feel important. Or whatever.
 
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I just read the entire book in one setting... it's been a long time since I've done that with any book.

There are going to be a lot of people who get upset about the book, but his experience was almost identical to mine... and he echoes a lot of sentiments that ran through my head last season, and other things that make me uncomfortable even now.

I'm not sure if the purity of the game ever really existed or if it was just a figment of youthful imaginations, but it feels like we've crossed a bridge in regards to college football becoming more impersonal and sterile. For better or worse we can't ever go back, and there is a sense of trepidation for what the future holds... even if at the end of the day I'm just afraid that something that was such a large part of my childhood and adolescence will become something unfamiliar to me...

Please don't try and kill me for being silly, just understand that's how I feel... and suspect a lot of people share similar sentiments.

I will watch and pull for Tennessee football, as long as blood runs through these veins... but that just makes me even more nervous.
 
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oUTKickedCoverage said:
I just read the entire book in one setting... it's been a long time since I've done that with any book.

There are going to be a lot of people who get upset about the book, but his experience was almost identical to mine... and he echoes a lot of sentiments that ran through my head last season, and other things that make me uncomfortable even now.

I'm not sure if the purity of the game ever really existed or if it was just a figment of youthful imaginations, but it feels like we've crossed a bridge in regards to college football becoming more impersonal and sterile. For better or worse we can't ever go back, and there is a sense of trepidation for what the future holds... even if at the end of the day I'm just afraid that something that was such a large part of my childhood and adolescence will become something unfamiliar to me...

Please don't try and kill me for being silly, just understand that's how I feel... and suspect a lot of people share similar sentiments.

I will watch and pull for Tennessee football, as long as blood runs through these veins... but that just makes me even more nervous.
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Well after reading your response, I now have to buy this book just to see what you are talking about. Thanks for your honesty.

GO VOLS!!!
 
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I just got the book. I have to say I like Clay Travis' style of writting.

It is done in a diary format similar to his last book, so I think it does a good job of following the expectations of the season followed by the disapointment.

If you like is online stuff you will like the book.
 
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Volmorning said:
Granted, I am a van of the Vols. This book chronicles my life experience, form the extasy of the 86 win over MIami to the problems and indecision last year. This book moved me deeply, and made me believe even more that the SEC is bigger than any school, and that CPF might have been the last of an era. Thoughts? Are we just a business now?
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Yes, it's a business.

It's just that the 100,000 or so 'investors' who show up for Saturday board meetings, are a little more passionate than the Wall Street crowd.
 
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With hundreds and thousands of dollars invested by many Vol fans, darn right it's a business. We are consumers, and expect to get a good product for the time and money we invest. Sounds dry when you say it that way, but it's the truth.
 
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